Pokémon Company Printed 85 Billion TCG Cards, 11.7% of All-Time Total in 1 Year
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Updated · Insider Gaming · May 27
Pokémon Company Printed 85 Billion TCG Cards, 11.7% of All-Time Total in 1 Year
4 articles · Updated · Insider Gaming · May 27
More than 85 billion Pokémon TCG cards were printed from April 2025 to March 2026, about 10 billion more than the prior fiscal year and equal to 11.7% of all cards ever made.
That surge comes as the franchise’s 30th-anniversary boom has left fans struggling to buy product, with scalping and hoarding complaints spreading across social media.
North Carolina is set to become a bigger production hub after Millennium Print Group confirmed a 1.27 million-square-foot campus, with upgrades to existing 400,000 square feet starting in early 2026.
A new advanced manufacturing facility there is due in 2027, with full-scale operations expected in late 2028, pointing to even higher Pokémon card output later this decade.
What is the hidden environmental cost of printing 85 billion Pokémon cards in a single year?
With 85 billion new cards, is Pokémon's solution to scalping about to destroy the collector's market?
As Pokémon prints billions of cards, can it win the war against sophisticated counterfeiters and scalping bots?